Silvertide

Silvertide started out as Vertigo in Northeast Philadelphia in January 2001, a five-piece of Nick Perri, Walt Lafty, Kevin Frank, Mark Melchiorre, Jr. and Brian Weaver that played hard rock with the swagger dialed all the way up. J Records signed them early on, and the American Excess EP came out in 2002.

Show and Tell, produced by David Ivory, was finished in 2003 and released in 2004, and it's a strutting, riff-first record, all bluesy swagger and choruses sized for arenas: "Blue Jeans" and "Devil's Daughter" sound built for cranked car stereos. The band barely came off the road from then until 2006, opening for Van Halen, Velvet Revolver and Mötley Crüe in the summer of 2004 and for Alter Bridge the next year, and they played "Blue Jeans" on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March 2005.

In 2006 M. Night Shyamalan put them in his film Lady in the Water, and the soundtrack carried their takes on Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" and "It Ain't Me, Babe". Lead guitarist Perri, a founding member, later stepped away for a while, and the others kept playing shows without him.

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